Anti-Israel protests nationwide fueled by left-wing groups backed by Soros, dark money

Progressive anti-Israel agitators crossed the country, including those who mobilized astatine New York City’s Columbia University, are associated with groups tied to far-left groups with extremist associations backed by acheronian wealth and wide mega-donor George Soros.

National Students for Justice successful Palestine (NSJP), a nationalist enactment affiliated with astir 200 autarkic chapters, has had a vocal presence astatine Columbia University successful caller days and astatine 1 constituent said it had walked distant from talks with schoolhouse leaders until administrators pledge not to person them arrested oregon forcefully removed from their encampment connected the Ivy League institution's West Lawn.

NSJP operates nether Westchester Peace Action Committee Foundation (WESPAC), a fiscal sponsor, whom Fox News Digital antecedently reported received a six-figure donation from a nonprofit bankrolled by the George Soros network. WESPAC, whose backing is mostly unknown, has espoused anti-israel rhetoric for years, including accusing the authorities of "apartheid," "ethnic cleansing," "collective punishment" and "war crimes," according to NGO Monitor.

NSJP regularly compares Israel’s attraction of Palestinians to Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow epoch successful the United States, accuses Israel of genocide, and has routinely promoted Hamas propaganda since the October 7 attack, Influence Watch reported.

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"Since October 7th, SJP has been highly assertive connected acold excessively galore campuses successful threatening ways, including the usage of violent, genocidal rally calls which see 'from the stream to the sea, Palestine volition beryllium free,' 'Globalize the Intifada,' and 'there is lone 1 solution, Intifada revolution,'" StandWithUs CEO Roz Rothstein told Fox News Digital astir the radical past twelvemonth aft it was suspended by Rutgers University for anti-Israel provocations.

"It is truthful nary astonishment that expanding numbers of universities are making the determination to suspend a pupil radical that combines convulsive rhetoric with violations of assemblage policies, threatening Jewish students connected campus."

Days aft the Hamas violent onslaught connected Israel, SJP released a connection calling the carnage a "historic triumph for the Palestinian resistance" and claimed, "This is what it means to Free Palestine: not conscionable slogans and rallies, but equipped confrontation with the oppressors."

NSJP’s founder, Hatem Bazian, has a agelong past of arguable antisemitic statements that see calling for an "intifada" successful the United States, defending Hamas connected societal media, and supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) question and Israel divestment, Canary Mission reported. 

An anti-Israel protestation encampment astatine Columbia University. (Peter Gerber)

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Video circulating connected societal media successful caller days shows Bazian connected the field of UC Berkeley the time aft the October 7 massacre egging connected a assemblage and seemingly celebrating the attack.

Bazian — who has donated thousands of dollars to Reps. Summer Lee, D-Pa.; Barbara Lee, D-Calif.; and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. — is presently listed arsenic a lecturer astatine UC Berkeley's Department of Ethnic Studies.

He besides has ties to "Squad" Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who was the "guest of honor" astatine AMP's yearly normal successful December 2019 and months earlier successful July delivered a briefing organized by AMP to implicit 70 people. The Michigan Democrat besides addressed AMP's Palestine Advocacy Day delegates successful April of 2019.

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Hungarian-born U.S. capitalist and Democrat donor George Soros wrote an op-ed successful 2007 slamming the U.S. and Israel for not recognizing Hamas' predetermination successful Palestine. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

In summation to Columbia, NSJP has been protesting and mounting up encampments astatine different universities crossed the country, including UCLA and USC successful California and astatine the University of Texas successful Austin, wherever implicit 50 radical were arrested this week. 

Another radical progressive astatine Columbia, Jewish Voice for Peace, has brought successful astatine slightest $650,000 from Soros-linked groups since 2016.

JVP has besides taken successful hundreds of thousands from the billionaire-fueled Rockefeller Fund, which is boosted by millions of dollars from a acheronian wealth backing network.

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One leafage of a pamphlet made disposable to students astatine the University of Michigan encampment states, "Freedom for Palestine means Death to America." (Josh Brown)

Influence Watch describes the radical arsenic "a left-wing, nominally Jewish radical that opposes U.S. assistance to the authorities of Israel and supports allowing Palestinians to unrecorded connected onshore wrong Israel vacated by Arabs during the Israeli War of Independence."

The radical released a statement this week condemning unit and blaming the assemblage for the unrest and for failing to support Palestinian students.

Fox News Digital reported that JVP was besides progressive astatine the University of Michigan this week, passing retired pamphlets astatine a structure encampment that contained the operation "Death to America, among different inflammatory phrases.

Another Soros-backed group, U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, has paid what it calls "fellows" to signifier and be anti-Israel protests crossed the country, New York Post reported.

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"The Open Society Foundations has a agelong past of warring antisemitism, Islamophobia and each forms of racism and hate," a spokesperson for George Soros' Open Society Foundations told Fox News Digital.

"Open Society has funded a wide spectrum of US groups that person advocated for the rights of Palestinians and Israelis and for peaceful solution to the struggle successful Israel and the OPT. This backing is simply a substance of nationalist record, disclosed connected our website, afloat compliant with US laws, and is portion of our committedness to continuing unfastened statement that is yet the lone anticipation for bid successful the region. The Open Society Foundations proudly enactment the close of each citizens to peaceful protestation — a bedrock rule of our democracy."

Fox News' Houston Keene contributed to this report.